Kevin,
Congrats on your new cars. I think that the Nickey Z is really neat, many of the guys that come to the track (that I work at) are focusing in on doing more "period correct" restos, meaning if the car was set up originally to be a drag car, they restore it by building it as a drag car. Jerry MacNeish was just over with us at RP this weekend with Dave Strickler's "Old Reliable" '68 Z28 running the car in NHRA Stock Eliminator and people just get really excited to see the car doing what it was originally built for. I think that having the Nickey Z restored the way it was is the right idea. Jerry ran a 11.19 in the quarter and was the fastest first gen Z there. Hey Jerry was wearing a "Super Car Workshop" T-shirt, he is a Brian Henderson fan.
Andrew